Anna Storgaard

October 1, 2024

The Ramboll Foundation donates DKK 500,000 to Doctors without Borders’ crisis response in Sudan

For the past year, large parts of Sudan have been experiencing ongoing violence, including intense urban warfare, gunfire, shelling, and airstrikes. More than 10 million people have been displaced by the current conflict, including over 2 million people who have fled to neighbouring countries. 

MSF is running a clinic in Zamzam camp, ~15km south east of El Fasher, the state capital, hosting more than 300,000 internally displaced people. MSF teams are offering Ambulatory Therapeutic Feeding services. A rapid nutrition and mortality assessment carried out by MSF in Zamzam camp in January 2024 reveals that a deadly situation has unfolded over the past nine months All emergency thresholds for malnutrition have been reached. Almost a quarter of children assessed in the camp were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition, with seven per cent having SAM (severe acute malnutrition) and being at immediate risk of death. , Among children aged six months to two years old, the figures were even more stark with nearly 40 per cent of this age group malnourished – 15 per cent with SAM. The emergency threshold for SAM, which indicates that urgent action must be taken, is two percent – indicating that a serious emergency situation is present in Zamzam camp.
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The health system, already fragile before the conflict started, is struggling to cope with existing and emerging medical needs, such as emergency care and surgery, treatment, malnutrition, and disease outbreaks, causing a regular health crisis in Sudan.

Acute humanitarian aid efforts

Through our donation, we are able to assist locally with emergency treatment, maternal and paediatric healthcare, mental health support, water and sanitation services, care for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, donation of medicines and medical supplies, and distribution of food among other crucial efforts.

The Ramboll Foundation is, like the rest of the world, involuntary witnesses to the horrors and massive humanitarian crisis currently ongoing in Sudan. We have besides our funding to research and education initiatives also the opportunity to help people and communities in need with acute humanitarian aid efforts. This is why we have chosen to support the people of Sudan through Doctors without Borders' medical and humanitarian crisis response and aid efforts in the affected areas.

Søren Staugaard Nielsen
Managing Director, Ramboll Foundation

One of the largest humanitarian crises in recent times

In many parts of Sudan, Doctors without Borders is among the few remaining humanitarian aid organisations. Despite the difficult circumstances, Doctors without Borders' presence and the medical care they provide demonstrate that it is possible to carry out humanitarian work in the area.

The situation in Sudan is one of the largest humanitarian crises we have experienced in recent times. Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes, and the population lives under the threat of attacks, violence, and a catastrophic lack of humanitarian assistance and support. Therefore, we are incredibly grateful that the Ramboll Foundation wishes to help during this overlooked crisis with a generous contribution to Doctors without Borders’ work in Sudan.

Malin Palmér
Director of Doctors without Borders (MSF), Denmark.

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  • Søren Staugaard Nielsen

    Managing Director, Ramboll Foundation

    +45 51 61 78 86

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